Hose-supporter.



APPLiOATION FILED MAY 16, 1968.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

vINoENT PRICE, or NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR To CHRISTINA J. HIGLEY, or

HOSE -SU.'PPORTER.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT PRIoE, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hose-Supporters, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in hose supporters and the like. i

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective bowattachment, and to give to the article a handsome and attractiveappearance, the construction being such that substantial economies areattained. It is very desirable in articles of this type made in fancyform, to decorate the buckle portion with a bow, and in the greatquantities in which these articles are made very much ribbon isconsumed'in the forming of the bow.

- The object of this invention is to. provide a construction which willsave substantially in the length of ribbon required, and at the sametime make it possible to apply the bow to the ordinary form of bucklew1th but very slight change and at a minimum cost.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a hosesupporter, with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view 0the buckle and bow portion, the lever of the buckle being open andturned up to expose the rear side of the'bow. Fig. 3 is a detail of thebuckle, detached. Fig. 4 is an end view of another detail.

111 represent the webbing ortions of the hose supporter. A part of thiswebbing runs through a frame 2 of the buckle.

3 is a swinging lever carried by the buckle frame 2, by which thewebbing is locked in an adjusted position, the buckle being capable oftraveling thereon when the lever is in its inoperative position.

4.4 are perforations in the face of the lever.

5 is a secondary face plate arranged to be detachably connected with theface plate of the lever 3. One convenientmeans for attaching thesecondary faceplate 5 to the member 3 comprises tangs 6-6, which, in thepreferred form, are pointed so as to pass easily through theperforations IT-4c, whereto attaching the secondary face plate.

upon they may be bent down at the rear, as

shown in Fig. 2.

7 is a bow or imitation thereof. Whereas the ordinary bow includes aknotted center portion, this bow is formed merely by foldingthe ribbonupon itself, as best seen in Fig. 1, and pinching it together, as shownin said view, so as to come within the embrace of the prongs 66 to therear of the secondary face plate 5. This is done prlipr 'y now attachingsaid face plate to the lever 3, the imitation bow 7 is securely held inplace. The secondary plate is preferably formed by punching in suchmanner that any bur raised by said punching process will be formed atthe rear side. This bur, however slight is availed of to frictionallyengage the fabric of the imitation bow and prevent its-being displacedlongitudinally. At the same time, this process of forming the secondaryface plate 5 gives a rounded or finished appearance to the obverse side.

The secondary face plate may be made of any suitable design, butpreferably is of substantial area from side to side, such as would befurnished by a circular plate, as shown, thereby taking the place of theordinary knot found in the usual bow construction. Obviously it isimmaterial how the imitation bow is formed, whether of doubled ribbon orof a single length, the same being effectively held equally well.

What I claim is:

In a garment supporter, a buckle including a main face plate, asecondary face plate of smaller dimensions than the main face plate, tworearwardly projecting fastening devices on said secondary face platearranged to bedetachably engaged with said main face plate, saidprojections being arranged one above the other, a transversely arrangedbow of material of greater width thanthe space between said projections,an intermediate portion of said bow being pinched or contracted andarranged and held in saidpinched and contracted position by saidrearwardly extending projections.

VINCENT PRICE.

Witnesses:

F. J. BLooK, CHAs. A. PEARD.

